First-Year Housing Information

General
Information

Who is defined as a First-Year Student?

First-year students are defined as students who have earned a high school diploma or its equivalent, and have earned less than 12 semester hours of transferable college credit after high school graduation and before enrolling into UNF. This excludes college credits earned during high school completion through accelerated mechanisms such as IB, AICE, AP and dual enrollment classes. After matriculation to UNF, students will continue to be defined as first-year students until they have completed two terms: fall and spring or spring and fall terms.

The University of North Florida is committed to ensuring the academic and personal success of its students. In working to fulfill this commitment, over the past several years we have learned that living in on-campus housing can make a world of difference in what our students take away from their college experience and in their success rates. The benefits of living on campus are especially significant for students who have just graduated from high school and are attending their first year of college. Research tells us that those students who live on campus during their first year:

have
higher grade point averages,

make
a smoother transition from high school to college,

have
higher retention and graduation rates,

report
greater satisfaction with their college experience, and

make better use of the educational and support services provided by their universities than do commuter students.

Consistent with this perspective and to ensure the quality of the first year experience, UNF encourages all first-year students to live in on-campus housing. When living on campus housing during the first year, students are required to purchase a meal membership, including those students who elect to live on campus during summer term. There are several different meal memberships to choose from depending on the student’s individual needs. The minimal meal membership provides for 10 meals per week.

Academic Year Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Osprey Hall residents will reside within a double occupancy room. Private rooms will only be utilized to accommodate medical and disability needs as determined by the UNF Disability Resource Center.

Osprey Crossings residents will reside within primarily a double occupancy room. There may be a limited number of triple rooms available depending on enrollment. Private rooms will only be utilized to accommodate medical and disability needs as determined by the UNF Disability Resource Center.

Osprey Landing
and Osprey Cove residents will reside within a triple occupancy room. Double and private rooms will only be utilized to accommodate medical and disability needs as determined by the UNF Disability Resource Center.

A portion of Osprey Landing and Osprey Crossings will be home to several first-year Living-Learning Community opportunities. Living-Learning Community participants will reside in double rooms.

A portion of Osprey Landing and Osprey Crossings will be home to several first-year Living-Learning Community opportunities. Living-Learning Community participants will reside in double rooms.

**We work closely with Enrollment Services to determine housing needs for the incoming first-year class. We will monitor enrollment throughout the summer and if enrollment numbers for first-year residents are lower than anticipated we will adjust occupancy accordingly. At this time, we anticipate the use of triple-occupancy rooms as outlined above.

To submit a contract to live on-campus, visit the myHousing web portal and log-in with your UNF myWings credentials.

Make sure to keep your preferences updated and ensure you and your desired roommate(s) have mutually accepted one another.

Information for online Room Selection will be available online by May 1, 2017 and will also be sent out to contracted students' UNF e-mail accounts periodically throughout the summer.